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Detroit, Mich., Oct. 2nd, 1906

Mr. Gus Mayer,
Obach & Co.,
168 New Bond St.,
London, W., Eng.

Dear Mr. Mayer:-

Your good letter of Sept. 22nd, and the package of Whistler prints came this morning, thus far I have had opportunity to give them only a hurried examination. I am leaving for New Y rk [[York]] in a couple of hours to be gone ten or twelve days, and immediately upon my return I shall write you agaim [[again]] more fully. I think, from a hurried glance given the prints, that I shall want to add practically all of them to my collection, but you will understand that before deciding definitely I must have an opportunity to make studied comparisons.

I am much interested in what you wrote concerning the Theobald collection, and I can understand how keenly you were disappointed. 

I should like very much to have the dry point portrait of F. R. Leyland from the Theobald collection, and know that if you can secure it you will do so. Perhaps if you were to tell Mr. De Prez that you want the portrait for my collection, he would be more willing to part with it. I met Mr. De Prez first through Mr. Whistler, and our relations ever since have been very pleasant.

I shall be glad, too, at your convenience to receive whatever